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Here's What Happened Today: Monday

Everybody’s talking about storm St. Jude, the Dublin marathon and the Junior Cert.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news.

imageThe scene of a gas main explosion that killed two people in in Hounslow, West London during storm St.Jude. Pic: (Jeff Moore/Empics Entertainment)

IRISH

WORLD

#UK: The phone hacking trial of former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson got underway at the Old Bailey in London today.

#NSA: As the US spying scandal spreads throughout Europe, there are reports that the NSA monitored 60 million telephone calls in Spain in a month. [BBC]

#CHINA: Five people died after a jeep plowed into a crowded part of Tiananmen Square and caught fire. [CNN]

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PARTING SHOT

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Pic: James Crosbie/Inpho

Sean Hehir celebrating breaking the tape as he became the first Irishman to win the Dublin marathon for 20 years. Maria McCambridge made it a double win for Ireland.

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